Three Jerusalem residents who allegedly swindled
donors into giving money to combat a nonexistent Christian cult they claimed
was kidnapping, sexually abusing and forcibly converting hundreds of
ultra-Orthodox Jewish children to Christianity have been arrested, police said.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said investigators
launched an investigation into the supposed cult two years ago after receiving
reports that children in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Sanhedria neighborhood ages
4-10 had been ritually and sexually abused by a Christian group.

The two-year investigation that concluded this week
soon determined that no such cult ever existed, and police said the individuals
behind the claims made up the story in order to solicit donations from
concerned people in Israel and abroad which they later pocketed. […]

Rumors of fake Chinese mangos made from plastic are
throwing social media users in Vietnam into a collective paranoia.

The rumors sprouted from a video clip posted by a
Facebook account named D.T.N. appearing to show the seed from a small mango,
allegedly from China, being cut open to reveal what seems like a plastic
membrane. […]

According to many experts, the ‘plastic’ membrane
found in the clip might just be a natural part of a mango.

Dr. Tran Anh Tuan, a member of the Plant Physiology
Department of the Vietnam National University of Agriculture, said that many
plants have soft membranes to protect the seed.

Dr. Nguyen Van Hoan, a former lecturer in the Faculty
of Agronomy of the Vietnam National University of Agriculture, suggested that
some plants have an outer coat to protect the seed and a very soft inner
membrane that encapsulates the seed.

This soft membrane is perhaps the ‘plastic’ one people
claim to have found inside the stones. […]